Spout support for railway water columns



Oct. 25, 1938. J. T. M GARRY SPOUT SUPPORT FOR RAILWAY WATER COLUMNS Filed Oct. 2a, 1936 2 Sheets-Shet 1 fitter-megs,

0a. 25, 1938. J. MCGARRY 2,134,412

SPOUT SUPPORT FOR RAILWAY WATER COLUMNS Filed 001'.- 25, 1956 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Inven'tO J. McG-arr- Patented Oct. 25, 1938 sPoU'r SUPPORT Application October 23,

FOR RAILWAY WATER COLUMNS John T. McGarry, CincinnatLQhio 7 Claims.

v My invention relates to spout supports for railway water columns and has for its object to provide in a water column desig to the tenders of locomotives,

ned to deliver water a spout and a means of supporting the same which shall be simple in construction and particularly satisfactory and efficient in operation.

It is a particular ob ect of my invention to provide a spout which at ing end a vertical direction and the butt end thereof, on 2.

its inner or water receivshall have a cross section elongated in to support said spout, or

butt-roller mounted within the spout and having a contact with the top of the goose-neck discharge nozzle of the water column which shall cover a considerable part of the transverse circumference of the gooseneck amounting to or mor e thereof, and which shall have its axial support in the upper part of the butt end of the spout. It is a further object of vide restraining chains each my invention to prohaving pivotal connection at onevend with the standpipe and at the other end with the butt end of the spout substantially in line with the axis of the butt-roller, and to form in conjunction with said restraining chains a spring shock absorber acting to yield when the body of water neck nozzle first strikes the.

shock or blow transmitted to said out danger of breakage.

delivered from the goosespout, absorbing the chains with- Full objects and advantages of my invention will appear in connection with the detailed description thereof and its novel features will be particularly pointed out in claims.

In the drawings illustrating an application of my invention in one form, tion view of a portion or standpipe showing Fig. l is a side elevaof a railway water column the position and form, and

the manner of mounting and supporting the spout. Fig. 2 is a cross-section taken on line 2-2 of Fig. l on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 is a fragmental side elevation sectional View of the butt end of the spout taken the center of the butt roller.

sectional view taken on line along the spout across Fig. 4 is a detailed 4- of Fig. 2.

As illustrated, the spout it has secured to the margin which the metal of the spout ets, welding or any desired the upper portion of l I of the spout i0 is secured ner such as by bolts the rear of its rear end It a ring casting E2 to i i is secured by rivknown method. In or butt-end portion in any desired man- !3, a U-piece 14 having arms 55 and 16, within which is mounted an axle pin It. Mounted to rotate upon spool or butt-roller t8, whi

this axle pin I1 is a ch has an external 193 Serial No. 107,1 8 (01. 137-21) contour ing portions [8a and lab 19 roughly spool-shaped with end bearadaptedto contact with inner end parts of a transverse are indicated at 20 of the top surface of the goose-neck or nozzle 2| of the standpipe prope tacted by surface prise a substantial part the upper surface of the equalling or in excess of Having reference to .F i

r, and this are so con- IQ of butt-roller [8 will comof the circumferencev of goose-neck preferably of said circumference.

2 and to the transversely elongated cross-sectional form of the spout l0, and of its butt-end II, and noting the position of the butt-roller this elongated portion and 18 close to the top of the engagement of the surfaces lBa and I8b with the surface of the goose-neck far-above the center-of any transverse section of the butt-end 'll of spout l0, itwill be apparent that gravity will tend to hold the spout in proper position with its cal and with the surface riding upon the upper longer dimension verti- H! of the butt-roller l8 surface of the top of the goose-neck, as indicated at 20 in Fig. 2.

The front end of the s pout is supported in a well-known manner by means of a cord 22 c onnected to a point 23 on the spout and toward its front end, said cord passing over guide rollers 24' and 25 to a ring weight 25 pipe 21 of the water column,

surrounding the'standthe roller 24 being supported from a beam 28 rigidly secured to the upper portion In delivering water to 29 of the standpipe 21.

tenders of engines, as

will be apparent from inspection of the drawing Fig. 1, there is the spout l0 heights.

a wide range of adaptability of for tenders of greatly varying Means are rovided which will have the effect of restraining the spout. forward movement along at its butt end in its the gooseneck 2| when the outer limit of said movement has been reached, and which at the ate with theaxle shaft l same time will cooper- I and buttroller IB-to aid in maintaining the spout in correct position along its transverse vertical center.

comprises chains 36 and pieces 32 and 33, which in nected to ring casting i This means 3| connected to pivot turn are pivotally con- 2 and butt end ll of spout Ill by means of pivot bolts 34 and 35. This point of pivotal connection is substantially in line with the axis of the axle shaft inafter recited. The

H fora purpose herechains 30 and 31' are con nected through U-links 36, 31 and38; 39 to plate connectors 40 and 4| Whichgin turn are connected to the standpipe back of the roller shown in Fig; 1.

In the dotted line posi 25, as clearly ion of-Fig. 1; very-low tenders will be served, and when the spout is in the position shown on dotted lines, or in positions approaching that dotted line position, the

the spout and possibly injuring operators.

a butt end of such a spout vantages over any this danger I have provided 36 and 38 for' one chain,

To secure against U-link construction and the similar construction 31 and 39 for the other chain. In both instances a strong compression spring 42 takes between upper hooks 43 on lower links 38 or 39, and lower hooks 44 on the upper U-links 36 or 31, so that the spring 42 acts as a shock absorber to take up or absorbthe force of the blow resulting from the initial discharge of the stream of water against the inner walls of spout ID. This absorption of initial shock effectively prevents breaking of the restraining chains 30 and 3!, and wrecking of the spout.

, The advantages of my invention will be apparent from the foregoing description. There is a very great advantage in the use of a spout having an elongated cross-section toward the butt end or rear end as indicated in Fig. 2, whereby a large amount of space is available for the discharge of the stream of water from the gooseneck nozzle. Since this discharge is usually at high speed under a very large head, there is a tendency in many positions of the spout, where this amount of space is not available, for the water to back up, regurgit'ate and splash out of the rear end of the spout resulting in waste of water and in very serious trouble with ice in the winter time. The butt-roller mounting of the rear end of the spout has many marked adother form of supporting the rear end of the spout. With a spout substantially round in cross-section, or with restraining means toward or below the center of the trans-- verse section of the spout, the use of a butt-roller has not proven entirely satisfactory, because of a tendency for the spout to twist as it is carried down the goose-neck in adjusting to tenders of different heights and of different distances from the standpipe. This twisting tendency is efi'ectively obviated by the use of the wide buttroller inside the rear end of the spout and close to its top, with the spout having an elongated transverse cross-section as indicated in Fig. 2, and the connection of the restraining means, such as chains 30 and 3|, also at the top of the and substantially in the horizontal axis of the butt-roller I 8. This mounting permits the spout to be drawn out and pushed in without tendency for it to twist or roll over and with the wide butt-roller I8 rolling along the upper surface of g oose-neck 2 I. Furthermore, with this arrangement when the spout reaches the end of its travel with the chains 30 and 3| fully extended, the shock of the initial stream of water upon the-upper surface of the spout is absorbed in the spring connection between U-links 36, 38 or 37, 39, thus not only maintaining the spout and its elongated crosssection and butt-roller rear end support in proper position with the butt-roller riding the top of the goose-neck, butgpreventing the blow of the initial impact of the water from breaking the chains and wrecking the spout.

I claim:

1. A water column comprising a spout of elongated cross-section at its rear-end, said spout rear-end enveloping the goose-neck nozzle of the water column, and said nozzle of circular crosssection, a spool-shaped roller rotatably mounted in the upper part of the rear-end of the spout and shaped to engage the ends of a transverse arc across the major part of the top of said spout, the support of said spool in relation to the elongated cross-section of the rear-end of the spout being such that gravity will'maintain the spout in proper vertical relation to the gooseneck nozzle as the spout is drawn out along the same, and a pair of chains having pivotal connection with the rear-end of the spout substantially in line with the axis of said roller.

2. A'water column comprising a spout of elongated cross-section at its rear-end, said spout rear-end enveloping the goose-neck nozzle of the water column and having a supporting band secured to said rear-end, and said nozzle of circular cross-section, a U-member secured to the upper part of said spout and band within the spout and having parallel arms, an axle shaft spout and having parallel arms, an axle shaft mounted between said arms, a spool-shaped ro1ler rotatably mounted on said axle-pin and top of said spout, the support of said spool in relation to the elongated oross-section of the rear-end of the spout being such that gravity will maintain the spout in proper vertical relation'to the gooseneck nozzle as the spout is drawn out along the same, and a pair of chains having pivotal connection with said supporting band substantially in line with said axle shaft.

4. A water column comprising a spout of elongated cross-section at its rear-end, said spout rear-end enveloping the goose-neck nozzle of the water column and having a supporting band secured to said rear-end, and said nozzle of circular cross-section, a U-member secured to the upper part of said spout and band within the spout and having parallel arms, an axle shaft mounted between said arms, a spool-shaped roller rotatably mounted on said axle-pin and shaped to engage the ends of a transverse arc across the major part of the top of said spout, the support of said spool in relation to the elongated cross-section of the rear-end of the spout being such that gravity will maintain the spout in proper vertical relation to the goose-neck nozzle as the spout is drawn out along the same, and apair of chains each including a shock absorber for limiting movement of spout along thegoose-neck nozzle,

said chains having pivotal connection with said supporting band substantially in line with said axle-shaft.

5. A water column comprising a standpipe and gooseneck nozzle supported on the upper part thereof of circular cross-section, a spout having an enlarged intermediate portion and a contracted inner end surrounding said gooseneck and of a cross-section considerably longer in one direction than in the other direction, and a spoolshaped roller secured within the inner end of said spout at its top and extending transversely parallel with the shorter diameter of said spoutend, said spool having separated bearing surfaces forming a spout support engaging the upper surface of said gooseneck at points normally equidistant from a vertical plane passing through the center of the gooseneck, said spout support having such relation to the elongated cross-section of the inner end of the spout and the circular cross-section of the gooseneck as will cause gravity to maintain the spout in proper vertical relation to the gooseneck nozzle as the spout is moved along the same.

6. A water column comprising a standpipe and gooseneck nozzle supported on the upper part thereof of circular cross-section, a spout having an enlarged intermediate portion and a contracted inner end surrounding said gooseneck and of a cross-section considerably longer in one direction than in the other direction, a U-piece secured within the inner end of said spout at its top and extending transversely parallel with the shorter diameter of said spout-end, aspoolshaped roller rotatably mounted on said U-pieoe and having separated bearing surfaces forming thereof of circular cross-section,

. the center of the a spout-support engaging the upper surface of said gooseneck at points normally equidistant from the plane passing through the center of the gooseneck, said spout-support having such relation to the elongated cross-section of the inner end of the spout and. of the circular cross-section of the gooseneck as will cause gravity to maintain the spout in proper vertical relation to the gooseneck nozzle as the spout is moved along the same.

'7. A water column comprising a standpipe and gooseneck nozzle supported on the upper part aspout having an enlarged intermediate portion and a contracted inner end surrounding said gooseneck and of a cross-section considerably longer in one direction than in the other direction, and a spoolshaped roller secured within the inner end of said spout at its topand extending transversely parallel with the shorter diameter of said spoutend, said spool having separated bearing surfaces forming a spout support engaging the upper surface of said gooseneck at points normally equidistant from a vertical plane passing through gooseneck, said spout support having such relation to the elongated crosssection of the inner end of the spout and the circular cross-section of the gooseneck as will cause gravity to maintain the spout in proper vertical relationto the gooseneck nozzle as the spout is moved along the same, and a pair of chains, each embodying a pair of U-links and a compression spring having operative connection with the said U-links, for limiting the movement of the spout along its gooseneck support.

JOHN T. McGARRY. 

